Life of U.S. soldiers in various theaters, operating under very difficult conditions during World War II. Soldiers take positions in dense woods and fire rifles during a combat operation. They run and advance in a battlefield. African American U.S. army soldiers load and fire an artillery piece. A planes crashes, but pilot's parachute is seen safely descending. B-26 hit by flak, bursts into flame, part of engine falls away and aircraft spirals out of control on fire. Aircraft shot out of sky by fighter from behind. Glider aircraft noses forward during landing and flips up in the air. Gun camera footage from a U.S. aircraft firing at another aircraft on the ground. The target aircraft explodes and the flying aircraft flys through the smoke and flame directly above it. Soldiers fire at the enemy during what appears to be a battle in the pacific region. Machine gunner directs fire at enemy, and repeatedly hits a corpse lying just in front of the gun emplacement. Marines fire on Japanese positions on a Pacific island. Ruined villages and burning huts are seen, with U.S. tanks passing by. Marines direct flamethrowers into wrecked buildings and fortifications. Close view of machine gun barrel from side, firing rounds. Soldiers during a combat battle in dense woods of varying terrain. Soldiers advancing during battle. Marines direct flamethrowers at targets ahead.
U.S. Army General Joseph Stilwell confers with Frank Merrill, Commander-General of U.S. 5307th Composite Unit (nicknamed Merrill's Marauders) in Burma during World War II. Merrill and Stilwell walk along a field and talk. Gliders parked on a field. U.S. Army Air Force aircraft drop parachute supplies. A U.S. Army Air Force light aircraft taxis for a take off from a jungle strip.
Several United States aircraft taxi on a runway and take off in France during World War II. A tractor crane hooked to a wrecked U.S. Army Air Force Waco CG-4 glider. U.S. Army Air Force P-47 Thunderbolts parked in the background. A U.S. Army Air Force Silver Lockheed P-38 Lightning taxi past the parked aircraft in the background. The aircraft while taxiing raises dust. Invasion markings on the aircraft. A USAAF C-47 taxis forward, takes a turn and takes off. The aircraft in flight over the low field. Insignia of the United States. A U.S. Army Air Force Martin B-26 Marauder taxis on a runway and raises dust. Another C-47 taxis on the runway and takes off. A signal aircraft in the foreground. Parked aircraft and trees in the background.
U.S. Army infantry patiently making their way on foot at various places in Europe and the Pacific during World War 2. Troops under fire during an amphibious assault. Others employing small arms in fire fights. American soldier firing a Browning 30 caliber light machine gun from a protected position. The American flag planted at a beachhead on a Pacific island. Landing craft in the background. Infantry moving widely spread out across a field. A line of soldiers standing side-by-side firing their rifles toward an enemy position. Closeup glimpse of soldier with fixed bayonet on his rifle. Flamethrower being employed. A soldier throwing a hand grenade. Another firing a bazooka from prone position in woods. Other infantrymen employing weapons, including: machine gun; mortar; a light howitzer artillery piece. A soldier sharpening his knife on a ground stone. Aerial view of amphibious assault underway below. Closeups of infantry in fast moving landing craft Views of many wading ashore from landing craft in a shallow bay. Lines of infantry wading ashore from a Landing Craft Infantry Large (Number 747) in a Pacific campaign. Closeups of soldiers reaching shore. A formation of Waco CG-4A gliders in flight, and then some seen landing in plowed fields of Normandy on D-Day, 1944. One noses over and remains tail upright after a rough landing. Infantry moving under fire. Some cluster for protection next to a Sherman tank. Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark briefing officers with pointer and very large tactical map, in the open, in Italy in 1944. U.S. infantry moving under fire in rugged terrain of Italy. Troops moving casually past a fallen enemy soldier. Closeups of individual soldiers making their way past the camera and taking a break. One of their wounded seen on a litter in the background. Infantry moving along a dusty road and then slogging through a muddy stretch. A soldier with numerous cans of combat film, at a War Department repository. An army Signal Corps clerk reviews caption sheets that accompany the combat films. Infantrymen gathered at side of a hill and later digging foxholes in fields. Lines of infantry moving forward in rugged terrain, with pack horses behind them. Infantry moving in concert with advancing armor. Individual soldiers moving under heavy enemy fire. A grenade explodes and American soldier fires his rifle, striking fleeing enemy soldier who falls. Soldiers firing a 75mm M1 Pack Howitzer; rifles; and a flame thrower. Infantry seated in a line of DUKW amphibious trucks. A soldier in heavy cold weather gear, eating from his mess kit at a fox hole he prepared in snowy area. his trenching tool sits next to him. In contrast, soldiers are seen helping civilian refugees moving through rice paddy area somewhere in the Pacific. One carries a small child. A shift change at a U.S. war plant, shows thousands of workers . Lines of miners heading to work. Men and women punching time clocks as they leave after their work shift. Closeups of American men and women engaged in war production work of various kinds. Split screen shows war plant workers on one side and formations of soldiers on the other. Cemetery with grave stones of fallen American service personnel. One is marked "Unknown." Animated chart showing rising war production against backdrop of factories emitting smoke from chimneys.
The first U.S. prison camp in Colleville-sur-Mer after the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. U.S. soldiers question German prisoners. Prisoners rest on the ground. One of the prisoner being interrogated at a map. American cemetery near Eterville, France shows a grave with flowers. Open graves. Dead bodies of U.S. soldiers on the ground await burial. Wrecked gliders in the background. A soldier writes out a tag for the dead.
United States Airborne Engineers in France during World War II. U.S. Airborne Engineers lay a mesh strip over a field. U.S. Army Air Force P-47 Thunderbolts parked in the background. A mesh landing strip in the foreground. The Airborne Engineers lay more net on the landing strip. The engineers laying net. Parked aircraft in a revetment. A tractor crane and men attach the hook of the crane to the wreckage of the glider. U.S. Army Air Force C-47 Skytrains parked at a field. An explosion on a tree and the tree falls.
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